Obviously the face of live concerts has changed during the pandemic so, keen to get the feel of live performance to viewers, WOWOW, Japan’s premium pay-TV broadcaster, has live-streamed a musical performance in real-time using MQA audio with HD video. The event took place on 06 October 2020 in a Covid secure environment.
Bob Stuart, the creator of MQA and co-founder of Meridian Audio, has been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Prince Philip Medal for ‘his exceptional contribution to audio engineering which has changed the way we listen to music and experience films’. Stuart is the first audio engineer to receive the award in its 20-year history.
Millions of music fans and industry professionals are set to watch the inaugural International Indie Music Season (IIMS), China’s largest-ever music industry event.
MQA is still continuing to grow its network of international partners and expand its reach and has a whole lot of news to share about its recent developments.
Monitor Audio has launched its new IMS-4 Music Streamer. Featuring BluOS™ technology and Apple AirPlay 2, the IMS-4 is a versatile music streaming solution designed for custom install projects.
Luxman has announced the release of a new CD player, the D-03X. This model inherits the essential configuration of the D-05u CD/SACD player. It is Luxmans latest digital media player that supports MQA (MQA-CD/MQA files), a format which has seen an increasing number of titles released in recent years
Bluesound and MQA, are teaming up with two influential music organisations, Jazz re:freshed and British Underground, to present “The Master Sessions”.
Meridian Audio Ltd has announced a new distribution agreement with Onkyo Co. Ltd. that is set to deliver high performance audio solutions to more people in Japan.
MQA will be revealing new partners, additional products and more MQA music at two major North American shows. More »
As the iconic Walkman celebrates its 40th anniversary, Sony has added streaming capability to the newest models of its audio player: the NW-ZX500 and NW-A100 series. More »
British Hifi brand, Meridian, has introduced the new 210 Streamer. This product allows the latest music-streaming services to connect to home audio installations via a range of formats.
Once again, a special MQA Live performance will be delivered into partner rooms at the Munich High End show, this year with British singer-songwriter Ana Silvera performing songs alongside double bassist Jasper Høiby.
TIDAL, in partnership with MQA, has announced that Master quality tracks are now available via iPhone devices, the awaited update to TIDAL’s iOS app follows the recent Android news announced at CES in January.
MQA, which is now available with Tidal Masters on Android devices, as we reported at the start of 2019, will be at The Bristol Hifi Show 2019 with several of their industry partners. More »
TIDAL, the subscription-based music streaming service, has made its Masters quality service available on all Android smartphones. More »
All the latest Hifi brand news from CES 2019 in Las Vegas, USA. More »
MQA has announced a new hardware partner, Integra, along with the latest products to receive MQA upgrades from Pioneer, Onkyo and Astell&Kern. More »
Pioneer and Onkyo have announced a firmware update release on December 18th that activates MQA audio playback capability and support for TIDAL Masters audio streaming on their network-enabled stereo hifi components. More »
TEAC is has announced that its NR-7CD Network CD Player/Integrated Amplifier (pictured) and NT-505 USB DAC/Network Player can now be upgraded to add support for MQA. More »
IFi have released a free update that adds support for MQA to many existing products from their range. More »
The MQA team will be based in the Hi-Res Audio Pavilion, located in the largest and busiest area of the convention centre (Central Hall #14735). More »
The OPPO UDP-205 is a universal disc player specifically designed for audio performance, providing reference level sound quality for 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and many other digital audio and video formats. The latest firmware update to the UDP-205 adds MQA decoding to the UDP-205’s digital audio file playback. When a user navigates through music files using the UDP-205’s “Music” app, the player will be able to identify and decode files encoded with MQA. More »
Pioneer and Onkyo have announced a new Firmware Update for the Pioneer XDP-30R and Onkyo DP-S1 Digital Audio Players that enables them to play downloaded MQA music. More »
Music technology company, MQA, announces a breadth of partnership news at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. More »
